This issue has a total of three research articles. The authors and titles of these articles are as follows:

1. Stratos Pourzitakis and Krzysztof Sliwinski / A Study of Foreign Policy Analysis Framework in Germany’s Energy Policy of the Post-Cold War Era Charles

2. Chong-Han Wu / Taiwan’s Hedging Strategy Under the Influence of US-China Competition and Cooperation (in Chinese)

3. Duen-Min Deng / Counterfactual Reasoning and Explanatory Relations (in Chinese)